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Dec 1
“Expansion is the normal state of the economy;”

The NBER’s Recession Dating Procedure

I’ve been reading a number of financial blogs and this came up today in a couple of them.

How can “expansion” be the normal state of anything? Well except for some theories of the universe.

If financial thinking and planning is based on this premise, I fear that folks haven’t been thinking long term enough.